[AP] Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event

Your statement is incorrect. A government employee should not have more protection than a private employee. There was a time when government employees were held to a much higher standard and would be removed for actions like infidelity.

That said, Browns comments were not justification to be fired, at least by todays standards (which is little to no standards).

 

That's not more protection. Both the employee of a private company and the employee of the federal government are protected from government retaliation for the exercise of their rights. You are mistaking differences in exposure to risk for differences in protections.

 

So, now you are in favor of big government and socialist democracies?

DD

 

I don't know how you got to that from my statement. The 1st Amendment protects people from state action for speech. Therefor, the government cannot punish someone for their speech (unless it falls into one of the limited exceptions to free speech, like criminal threats or fraud). Limiting the government's ability to punish people is not big government, it is the opposite. Allowing private actors to fire people for speech is supportive of Capitalism, not Socialism. Somehow you attributed to me the exact opposite of the point I was making.

JuanValdez already covered this well. The issue is the limitation on the powers of the government, not the protections afforded to government employees. Hence my reference to the 1st Amendment.

 

I completely agree. Government employees should not have been fired for refusing the vaccine. And private employers should also be sued.

 

being fired for rightfully criticizing this dirtbag is disgusting…glad she got paid

 

Not stunned this all happened in Tennessee.

 

Kirk’s death was very graphic and disturbing but I can’t ignore the fact that he was about to get on his “gang members (black people) are mass murders” talking point before a white man blew his neck off…

 

Yeah she did. Nobody knew that any word against St. Charlie warranted all kinds of punishment

 

Socialist Democracies are capitalist.

They just tax the rich and keep them out of government elections.

DD

 

even Charlie Kirk himself, the alleged fighter for free speech, would be looking up from hell disgusted at people like this woman getting targeted

 

i thought about that too. the last seconds of his time on earth were spent being an edge-lord troll.

 

his last seconds on earth were spent trying to falsely claim that trans people were disproportionately responsible for mass shootings.

 

He died again?

 

Yeah. Great reason to be shot in the neck.

 

I don't think anyone suggested it was a reason for him to be killed.

 

i disagree. but i do think its a sad and wasteful way to spend your last few seconds on earth.

its actually a sad and wasteful way to spend any of your time...making up lies about how trans people are disproportionately responsible for mass shootings. but thats who he was.

 

Well, he’s murdered and dead now. Maybe continuing to hate on the guy is a sad waste of time too.

 

not as sad as whatever it is youre doing right now. i actually expressed sympathy for him and his family after he was murdered. youre the one who said that his comments were "Great reason to be shot in the neck.". seems like a pretty insensitive thing to say, but you do you.